If trouble comes, it is better to let it come now than at some later time."

VOA: special.2009.07.23

Well, if this thing is going to vibrate for any length of time it better be a standing wave.

好的，如果它在任意时间振动,那它就是驻波。

麻省理工公开课 - 固态化学导论课程节选

But I don't think that it is very relevant if you think that it is better that a baby should die.

但我认为这与你的想法无关,无论你是否认为一个孩子的死亡是件好事。

普林斯顿公开课 - 人性课程节选

"It is better to forgive. Because,if you kill my brother, then I come and pillage your family.

VOA: standard.2009.04.08

And if we were to think about which one of these is better, it turns out that it's the same i in terms of formal charges, so that doesn't help us out.

而如果我们要考虑它们中的哪个更好，结果从形式电荷来看,它们之间没有区别，因此这不能帮我们进行判断。

麻省理工公开课 - 化学原理课程节选

And again it makes sense if you think the dialogue is a kind of pedagogical tool to help you get better at philosophising.

而且如果你认为对话这本书,是一个教育学工具能帮你进行,哲学的研究推理，那就很有意义。

耶鲁公开课 - 死亡课程节选

And Socrates says it is better to be just even if that results in persecution and death.

苏格拉底回说，正义较好,就算结果是要面对迫害或是死亡。

耶鲁公开课 - 政治哲学导论课程节选

The reason I don't want to play a strictly dominated strategy is, if instead, I play the strategy that dominates it, I do better in every case.

我不选择严格劣势策略的原因是,要我选了优势策略,我在每次博弈都得到更好的收益

耶鲁公开课 - 博弈论课程节选

So we have to come up--we mortals-- have to come up with some other device, and our device to remember things is to try to write it down because my premise here is, if you can write music down clearly you are hearing it, clearly, and you would have a better chance of remembering it if you could write it down.

因此我们普通人,必须开发出,不得不开发出一些其它的方法,而我们用来记忆的方法,就是试着写下来,它的前提是,如果你可以将听到的音乐清楚地写下来,很清楚,那么你就更有可能,记住它,前提是你能写下它

耶鲁公开课 - 聆听音乐课程节选

Somebody dies at age 10 by some horrible disease better if they'd made it up to 40 Somebody dies at age 40,better if they'd made it up to 80 Somebody dies at age 80,better if they'd made it to 100,120 Is it true that life would get better and better and better ? the longer it is?

有人10岁得重病死去,如果能活到40岁更好0,有人40岁死去，如果或80岁更好0,有人80岁死去，如果活,100，120岁更好0,生命真的会越长越好,越长越好吗？

耶鲁公开课 - 死亡课程节选

The reason I never want to play a strictly dominated strategy is, if instead I play the strategy that dominates it, whatever anyone else does, I'm doing better than I would have done.

为什么我不选择严格劣势策略,因为我要是选优势策略,不管别人怎么选,我总得到更好的结果

耶鲁公开课 - 博弈论课程节选